During the 1800s and early 1900s the Industrial Revolution was positive event because it brought modernization, transportation, education, communication, and new technology despite the decline in the working conditions, child labor, and inequality of social classes.
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The Industrial Revolution had a great deal costs of industrialization. These costs resulted in children working up to fourteen hours a day at minimum wages. The industrial revolution also had unfair treatment of social classes. The upper and middle class were shown much better treatment in living and working condition. China, Africa, and India also participated int he costs of industrialization. Countries such as Britain, France, and Germany all participated in the Berlin Conference which determined the new borders of Africa without content. In India, the western empires exploited the traditions of Indian culture and unequal partnership between India and Britain. In China, Britain began trading Opium to the Chinese without them wanting it resulting in the violent Opium War to Chinese addicts.
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However there are benefits to the Industrial Revolution that outlaws the costs. The effort for modernization all over the world to Africa, India, and China make the world what it is today. Without the Industrial Revolution the world might have never has advances in transportation, government, communication, military, technology, medicine, and even the right for women to vote. The advances in making railroads, steam powered locomotive and boats made traveling a whole lot easier than before. New technology was a major part of the Industrial Revolution. The new ideas of technology made making products and goods easier for merchants.Even thought the European states were extremely racist they still did make the world what it is today.
In conclusion industrialization in the 18th and early 19th century was an overall positive event because it allowed the world to thrive in ways such as modernization, technology, the rights of women.